Sure, it's an informal survey, but a New York Times reporter's finding that eight black college students he spoke to have been stopped by police a collective 92 times is still a disturbing reminder of how the NYPD wields its stop-and-frisk tactics too heavily against the city's minorities.
The New York Police Department has been facing what seem like steep PR challenges after reports by the Associated Press that it spied on Muslims and the protests in February over its record-high street stops, but with enough pollsters on the case, New Yorkers were able to offer up with a positive opinion of both.
Want another sign that the New York Police Department was very explicitly spying on Muslims, on the basis of their religion alone? In the latest files unearthed yet again by the Associated Press, the NYPD kind of incriminates itself.
One way the New York Police Department is trying to deflect blame for this whole Muslim spying story: Tattling on their colleagues in New Jersey.
In another bit of negative Ray Kelly-related news that doesn't involve Islamophobia, the New York Police Department has announced a record number of on-the-street "stop-and-frisks" in 2011 with the overwhelming majority of them for black and hispanic males.
One rape allegation and a two-week hiatus later, police commissioner scion and local television host Greg Kelly was back on air wishing New Yorkers a good day -- without directly telling viewers why he'd left.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has had a really tough week, but with a day and a half to go before the weekend he gets a minor respite: The only Muslim member of New York's City Council defended that anti-Muslim film used in police training.
The fallout from that terrible anti-Muslim police video just got a bit worse today as the NYPD commissioner acknowledges that he agreed to be interviewed for it.
The New York Police Department has shown an anti-Muslim film in its training not "a couple of times," but nearly 1,500 times, to officers of all ranks, on "a continuous loop," according to The New York Times.
Zuccotti Park is once again open to the public, days after police closed it on New Years Eve in response to an Occupy Wall Street demonstration there, so feel free to head downtown because, hey, it's a balmy 24 degrees in New York City right now.
Some New York police officers really didn't like being assigned to Brooklyn's West Indian American Day Parade, so much so that they vehemently vented their frustrations on Facebook.
NYPD payouts have hit $117.6 mllion annually
Police don't always differentiate between them and the protesters
The latest video shows Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna spraying a young man
Anthony Bologna was named in several lawsuits after the 2004 Republican National Convention
Mayor Bloomberg answer's the natural follow-up to the top cop Ray Kelly's revelation
Reactions to a juror's tale of acquitting two cops of rape range from enthralled to creeped out
Critics of stop-and-frisk policing are outraged by the arrest of a Brooklyn councilman
A Chinatown merchant was arrested for selling Burberry and Luis Vuitton joss
Cops acquitted of rape trying multi-pronged approach to ease misconduct sentence
Two jurors say they believed cops were guilty, but lacked the evidence to convict
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